19 Facts About Alexander Roslin

Alexander Roslin combined insightful psychological portrayal with a skillful representation of fabrics and jewels.

Alexander Roslin's style combined Classicist tendencies with the lustrous, shimmering colours of Rococo, a jocular, elegant and ornate style.

Alexander Roslin lived in France from 1752 until 1793, a period that spanned most of his career.

Alexander Roslin has pieces displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1741, Alexander Roslin settled in Gothenburg, and the following year moved to Scania, where he remained until 1745 painting portraits and creating religious paintings for the church at Hasslov.

In 1745, Alexander Roslin left Sweden for Bayreuth, where he had been invited to work for Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

In 1768 Alexander Roslin painted her dressed in Bolognese fashion, Lady with Veil, a portrait that the art critic, writer and philosopher Denis Diderot judged "tres piquante".

Alexander Roslin was chosen as a member of the French Art Academy, to which his wife belonged.

Alexander Roslin had great technical skill in painting the surfaces and texture of precious materials such as fabrics and jewels, but was adept at capturing his sitters at their best.

Alexander Roslin painted several portraits of members of the French royal family and foreign princes, including the Swedish king Gustav III and his brothers.

Alexander Roslin was often surrounded by Swedish visitors to Paris, such as Peill.

Alexander Roslin was a good friend of the influential Swedish politician Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.

Catherine tried to persuade him to stay in her service, but Alexander Roslin declined and returned to France.

Alexander Roslin was enormously successful among members of French high society, becoming one of the wealthiest artists of the era in France.

Alexander Roslin painted a number of portraits of Russian Imperial statesmen, including images of Ivan Betskoi and his sister Anastasia Ivanovna, and of Ivan Shuvalov.

Alexander Roslin painted some notable portraits of Polish and French aristocratic ladies.

Alexander Roslin was one of the foremost portrait painters of his time, widely known for his masterful ability to reproduce his sitters' fashionable garments with their silks, lace, pearls and gold filaments.

Alexander Roslin flattered and beautified his subjects according to the Rococo ideal.

Alexander Roslin depicted his model in a cool colour scale; in green, white, and blue, with the artist's attributes of palette and brushes, a common way for artists to depict themselves.